Hi fellow Columbian! This is crazy snow. My fully defrosted car was having ice form on the windshield as I drove home and I couldn't see where the road started/ended on 63. I have heard from some friends still in school that some classes/tests are cancelled- but it doesn't help when they announce the class is cancelled at 10 and you are already on campus from your 8 am...

Hi fellow Columbian! This is crazy snow. My fully defrosted car was having ice form on the windshield as I drove home and I couldn't see where the road started/ended on 63. I have heard from some friends still in school that some classes/tests are cancelled- but it doesn't help when they announce the class is cancelled at 10 and you are already on campus from your 8 am...

True. The buses shut down... that's what did them in. Of course, they now have a few hundred people trying to get on the last buses to school...

We got ten inches yesterday/last night (including Thundersnow!) and I'm only at work today because our City Manager is from Bumfark, Iowa and gets a hard-on every time there's snow and needs to whip it out and show what a man he is so, despite every other major public sector business being shut down, we are open for business. 80 percent of the staff called in today and the only reason I'm here is because I'm having to unexpectedly take tomorrow and Monday off. That dude's going to have blood on his hands by the time the day's out and he couldn't care less.

/12" is just a winter weather advisory here.//just got 20-30" of snow Tuesday and the first half of Wednesday, where was the Weather Channel?

Yeah. I'm in the L.P., on the mid-eastern side of the state, and we've got nothing but cold. No snow to speak of.

I remember winters like that, though. When I was a kid, it used to be 12" high in November sometimes. We had blizzards and ice storms. People from down south would look at us funny and say "what's an 'ice storm'?" and we'd have to explain it.

I've been blanketed in 12 inches of snow over the last 24 hrs. Just about everyone is grinning. Last night the weather people could hardly contain their glee (they finally predicted precipitation and it turned out right!..though they were a little on the low side). I think the only people who are unhappy are the stores who aren't getting any customer and the businesses who pay their employees not to be at work.

Sure all this snow is probably only equal to one inch of rain or less, but hey, any potential water is great at this time.

Honest question: Would your life unravel and be absolutely unlivable if you drove 20% less, bought 20% less sh*t from China, walked 20% more, ate 20% less fast food, grew a garden, etc.... Contemplate the impact the would have on our environment....got that? Now reflect on that destroying the "economy" Discuss.

The problem lies in that for every one person who uses 20% less, there are 3 that will use that and more.

/not saying you are wrong. I'm saying humans - as a whole - are selfish.

New Age Redneck:I can solve all the problems with two single words, "Use less."

Please feel free to prove that conservation is a bad idea.

The problem is that your idea of using less isn't about conservation of resources, it's about being a f*cking hippie. Drive less, walk more? Walk where? It'd take you an hour to walk to a grocery store where I live, and an hour to walk back. Have fun when the windchill is 40 below. Growing a garden? When, in all my spare time to grow sh*t during the 6 months of the year when it's not dumping snow on me? Should we find better ways of doing things? Yes. Is conservation a bad idea? No. Is your idea of conservation a bad idea? It's pretty damn retarded, I'll give you that much.

New Age Redneck:Honest question: Would your life unravel and be absolutely unlivable if you drove 20% less, bought 20% less sh*t from China, walked 20% more, ate 20% less fast food, grew a garden, etc....

Neat! I am being conservative!

/lives out in the sticks//Conservation, the PC way of saying "poor"/"hillbilly"

dstanley:Uranus Megahertz: Isn't this already covered on the Main page two stories down?

On my phone or I'd give notice to the admins

Guys, ffs, there are more people that are gonna get hit by this storm then the midwest, namely the North-East. The headline is a look of things to come for those who are in the crosshairs, not a "oh hey, the midwest got snow" like the one two links down

Thundersnow? Seen a lot of snow storms but that's a new one on me. Was sitting here early this morning, saw a bright flash through the window and thought a transformer blew, then realized there was no explosion. About seven seconds later came the thunder. I'm like, what the...

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